rectangle, 28 days. there's lots of fun on calendars. remember inauguration day? there's a record number this year. >> fantastic. sorry, dagen. we're out of time. my favorite perfect square is coming up. hey, bret. >> bret: hey, greg. thanks. president biden's goal to put students back in the classroom in 100 days is running into some head wind. slain capitol police officer brian sicknick is honored in the anywaying's capitol. this is "special report." good evening. welcome to washington. across the country, pressure is building on school systems to reopen classrooms to students

after almost a year of online learning. in chicago, teachers are considering a strike tonight to stay put, to stay out of the classroom. in cincinnati, a judge threw out a teacher's union lawsuit over safety concerns. the politics and health experts here seem to be at odds on some items. we have fox team coverage. dan springer is in the pacific northwest where a pair of states are putting teachers near the front of the line or at the front of the line for vaccines. we begin tonight with mike emanuel and the confirmation for the nominee to lead the department of education. >> reporter: good evening. president biden set a goal of students reopening for in person learning in his first 100 days, but so far unions are not budging. today his department of education secretary nominee said it is still up for interpretation. >> we want to make sure we can get our students back into school safely. >> reporter: he side stepped a

question about the teachers union in fairfax, virginia, that all teachers and students must be vaccinated before returning. >> it doesn't require 100% of participants be vaccinated. >> we have examples of schools that have reopened safely and did so while following mitigation strategies. >> reporter: today the cdc director shredded a prerequisite. >> safe reopening does not suggest teachers need to be vaccinated in order to reopen safely. >> reporter: the white house press secretary walked that back several hours later. >> they have not released their official guidance yet from the cdc on the vaccination of teachers and what would be needed to ensure the safe reopening of schools. >> reporter: top democrats are including reopening schools as an issue in their argument for president biden's $1.9 trillion covid relief package. >> this rescue package will include resources for schools to

make that happen quicker. >> reporter: mitch mcconnell countered states and school districts have only spent about $4 billion of the money set aside. he said it is lack of will power from teachers unions. >> no goal post moving. states and districts have got to follow the science. >> reporter: utah republican senator mitt romney said the unions always want more money. >> the funding is something which the teachers union is very happy to receive which which will not result in actual improvement of the performance of our young people. >> reporter: while the fight goes on in washington around the nation many kids are being impacted, some to their breaking point. >> there's no doubt in our minds that the stress he was feeling is a result of school closures, not being able to be with his friends, not being able to play football, absolutely contributed to his death. >> reporter: press secretary

psaki says moving teachers up is important to president biden. axios reports white house political advisers fear if they push students to open and new variants spread, they could be forced to shut down schools again like what happened in europe. bret? >> bret: mike, thank you. press secretary jen psaki noting it's up to states. some states are putting teachers at the front or near the front of the line to get vaccines hopefully to get students back in the classroom. getting vaccinated does not mean schools will be back to full capacity. dan springer reports. >> reporter: these students in oregon are among a select few, just 13% of all k-12 students in the state have been inside classroom since last march. that's expected to change soon as the governor puts teachers at the front of the covid vaccination line. >> for every teacher who's back

in the classroom, they help 20, 30, 35 back on track. >> reporter: according to idaho have bumped them all ahead of seniors not living in group sets. 80% of all covid defts over 65, many retirees say holding them back will cost lives. >> seniors have more underlying conditions and are more prone to die. >> reporter: nationally, some 20 million students have done nothing but distance learning the last ten months. studies show they have significant learning loss and suffer anxiety and depression. we're seeing a range somewhere between 30% and 60% increase in distress over the pandemic for young kids. >> reporter: teachers unions have largely fought reopening schools until educators can get vaccinated even though the cdc

said school transmission rates are lower than in the community. in oregon, there's no guarantee all teachers will be going back to the classroom even after jumping the vaccination line. >> we certainly have students that won't have been vaccinated so they are a risk to each other. the vaccinations aren't 100% effective. >> reporter: oregon guidelines could make it impossible to reopen big high schools. if they remain closed even after teachers were pushed ahead, there will be a backlash from the elderly, parents and students who are all suffering the consequences. bret? >> bret: dan, thanks. breaking tonight the house rules committee met this afternoon to debate a measure to remove congress woman marjorie taylor greene's committee assignments over comments she's made in the past and conspiracies she's touted. the democratic chairman of the committee said greene encouraged

violence against fellow members. house minority leader kevin mccarthy said he condemns the statements on school shootings, political violence and conspiracy theories but does not, does not, back the effort to remove her committee assignments. jacqui heinrich is following the story. >> reporter: 211 house republicans huddled together to decide the fate of that freshman congress woman who drew ire from all sides. they are still hashing it out right now. republicans are leary of caving to democrat demands and setting a precedent. >> when you start having people in washington dictate what happens to members of congress and what committees they can serve on and not leave that decision to the voters in the districts of the american people, that is a dangerous road to head down. >> reporter: a small faction of

republicans say congress woman omar be stripped for comments she made and apologized for. greene did not back down and told the washington examiner they don't even realize they're helping me. i'm amazed at how dumb they are. mccarthy condemned greene's past rhetoric but said i understand marjorie's comments have caused deep wounds to many and i offer congress woman hoyer. democrats are choosing to raise the temperature. it would force members of his party to publicly back or rebuke greene. whatever happens with greene, she is making money off of it. more than $160,000. it's less clear how mccarthy will deal with congress woman liz cheney after more than 100

members within the party are pushing to remove her from her leadership spot after shet month. tonight she refused to apologize and one source said she wants her leadership position to go to a vote. sources also tell fox mccarthy is backing her to remain in her position, bret. >> bret: thank you. white house press secretary jen psaki said the biden administration fully supports the space force. that statement comes the day after psaki gave an answer that several lawmakers saw as dismissive. one republican called it disgraceful. white house correspondent kristin fisher is following the story. >> reporter: just seven weeks ago the russians tested an anti-satellite weapon capable of potentially taking out u.s. spy and communication satellites. it's the very kind of threat that the u.s. space force was created for during the trump

administration. but when asked about this newest branch of the u.s. military in the briefing room, white house press secretary jen psaki said -- >> wow. space force. it's the plane of today. >> reporter: a nod to an earlier question about the color of air force one. that response fed concerns within the force. according to two service members that the biden administration is not taking threats in space seriously enough. a top republican said psaki blatantly diminished an entire arm of our military and he asked her to apologize. given a chance to do so today, she declined but did offer the white house's first line of defense of the force. >> does the space force have the full support of the biden administration or is the president at some.perhaps going to try to get rid of it or in some way diminish it? >> they absolutely have the full support of the biden

administration. we are not revisiting the decision to establish the space force. >> reporter: after her initial remark, she took to twitter to address the criticism and invited members of the space force to the white house. the top general said he would welcome the opportunity. the white house top concern continues to be back on planet earth, looking to get covid under control. today president biden met with senate democrats in the oval office. >> there's agreement, universal agreement. we must go big and bold. >> reporter: the president is still holding out hope for bipartisan support. republican senator mitt romney said it's possible but not without lowering that price tag. >> if it goes forward without any changes from what was originally proposed, i would predict noted a single republican will support the $1.9 trillion plan. >> reporter: one potential point of compromise are those $1400 stimulus checks that president biden is asking for. psaki said that the amount of

those checks is not up for debate, but the number of americans who qualify or would qualify for those checks is on the negotiating table. bret? >> bret: not $2,000, but $1400. kristin, thanks. mixed day on wall street today. dow gaining 36. s&p 500 rose 4. the nasdaq lost 2. also breaking tonight defense secretary austin directed a service wide standdown to take place sometime in the next 60 days to have, quote, needed discussions on extremism in the ranks. the decision to call a meeting with all the military service chiefs and secretaries follows the january 6 attack on the capitol and revelations that some active duty and large number of military veterans participated in that riot. in 2020 the fbi opened 143 investigations involving past and present members of u.s. military, 68 had to do with

domestic extremism. the remains of u.s. capitol police officer brian sicknick were buried at arlington national cemetery today after he was honored at the u.s. capitol. the officer was injured during the january 6th attack, died the next day. congressional correspondent chad pergram looks at the sober memorial. >> reporter: officer brian sicknick saluted, his remains lying in honor of the u.s. capitol rotunda. >> it is my official and sad honor to welcome officer brian sicknick and many who loved, respected and were protected by him to the united states capitol rotunda. >> reporter: a somber ceremony conducted pandemic style. mourners fanned out six feet apart. >> he was caught in the wrong place at the wrong time on a day when peace was shattered.

♪ o beautiful for hero ♪ >> reporter: lying in honor is similar to lying in state. only five americans have laid in honor, three were u.s. capitol police officers. senate majority leader chuck shumer went to the same high school as sitnick's mother and spoke about how tough this was for everyone. >> that brian and his family were made to pay such a high price for his devoted service in the capitol was a senseless tragedy, one that we are still grappling with. >> reporter: capitol police escorted sicknick's remains to the capitol tuesday night. president biden and first lady jill biden among the first to pay their respects. the president tweeting, no words can dull the pain of this moment. an honor guard stood vigil over sicknick's remains overnight. brian sicknick joined the

capitol police in 2008 and served twice overseas, in saudi arabia with the new jersey air national guard. defense secretary lloyd austin, joint chiefs of staff paying tribute before sicknick was intered at arlington national cemetery. sicknick served in the capitol police's first responder unit. he was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher. he later collapsed and died the next day. police are treating sicknick's death as a homicide. >> bret: thank you. mitch mcconnell said today four weeks ago the rotunda was strewn with the debris of an insurrectionist mob. today it is adorned for the sacrifice of a hero. brian sicknick was 42 years old. >> man: what's my safelite story? i spend a lot of time in my truck. it's my livelihood.

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than 150,000 items. everything from fake super bowl rings to masks. we're learning new information about the circumstances that led to two fbi agents being killed when they arrived to search an apartment including we're learning who the shooter was. correspondent steve harrigan is following the story. >> reporter: an investigation is under way into what happened on . the suspect david lee hoover watched the approach of the agents through a doorbell camera then used an assault rifle to shoot them through a closed door. >> one was shot in the shoulder. >> reporter: five agents shot, two dead. two hospitalized with multiple gun shot wounds, one of which was released today, the fifth treated on the scene. fbi director wray met privately with the families of the slain agents. officials say they meticulously

plan for all operations. >> a vast majority of these warrants occur without incident. >> reporter: now this gated community is crime scene of one of the deadliest events in peub history. >> my neighbor said he heard a machine gun at 6 a.m. >> reporter: expressing his condolences to the fallen families, president biden spoke about those who wear the badge. >> vast vast majority of these men and women are decent, honorable people who put themselves on the line. >> reporter: biden's qualified phrase of law enforcement drew questions from the media. >> why do you think it was important to stress vast majority? >> i think he believes men and women who have been serving our country have been criticized and he wanted to reiterate his support for the important work they do. >> reporter: special agent daniel alfin and laura schwartzenberger often pursued cases where violent acts against

children were committed. both agents leave behind spouses and children of their own. bret? >> bret: steve, thank you. up next, why herd immunity may not happen any time soon. some more mixed messaging on double masking. we'll bring you that story. first here's what some fox affiliates are covering. fox 11 in los angeles, an explosion at an industrial park injured four people, three critically. the blast was caused by commercial pyrotechnics and then a brush fire started after that. fox 35 in orlando where florida's governor ron desantis announced new proposals aimed at reigning in social media platforms and what the republic calls the squelching of free speech. it is uncertain legally if the

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the biggest hurdle. only 38% of the staff get the shot. according to a monmoth university poll, only 50% of americans plan to get vaccinated with 19% preferring to wait, and 24% unlikely to get vaccinated at all. but federal health officials say they're nowhere near mandatory inoculation. >> we can't be in a place where we're thinking about making requirements until we have enough for the entire country. >> reporter: today glaxosmithkline announced it's working with a german company to develop vaccines against new variants of the coronavirus while pledging up to 100 million doses of its existing vaccine this year. a study from mount sinai hospital suggests people previously infected with covid-19 may only require one vaccine dose to maintain their protection. while the cdc recommends wearing

a mask with at least two layers of washable fabric, federal researchers are investigating whether double masking offers additional protection again more infectious mutation. >> there's nothing wrong with people wearing two masks. i often myself wear two masks. can we make a general recommendation that doesn't have scientific basis yet? no. >> reporter: con tack tracers have found many of these variant cases are spread among people wearing no mask and practicing no social distancing. just wearing a mask period is a good place to start. bret? >> bret: jonathan serrie, thank you. parler terminated its ceo john massey according to a memo to staff. the parler board making that decision today without the input of the now former ceo. when republicans had control in the senate, the party sought to

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>> reporter: that's where judge garland sits. he's on his way to becoming the next attorney general. sources familiar with the selection process tell fox news a possible garland replace is judge brown jackson a district court judge in washington, d.c. progressives want more, flirting with court expansion. >> i have in the city of buffalo a huge -- they don't have enough judges. there's this long line before you can get to cower because they don't have enough. so we could expand those. >> reporter: but expanding the amount of judges, also known as court packing, takes time. time is at a premium. >> the difficulty mr. schumer faces is he's got a lot on his plate. trying to do covid relief, infrastructure, democracy reform, immigration. they have a very very full agenda. >> reporter: another popular democrat idea expanding the supreme court with up to ten more justices and ending their life tenure. a white house official tells me the president will press forward with a study on court reform.

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>> vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for opening up schools. >> educators have a right to express their fears, like everyone else in this country. they have seen the ravages of covid. >> it doesn't require that 100% of the participants be vaccinated to accomplish that. >> we have great examples of

schools that are able to reopen safely and do so while following mitigation strategies. >> bret: nominees for secretary of education there talking on capitol hill. this as the wall street journal reports so far k-12 schools have been allocated $67.2 billion in funding and according to the wall street journal $4.4 billion of that has been spent so far. where are we on this opening of school issue? we'll talk about covid plans. let's bring in our panel. former tennessee congressman, katie pavlich and byron york. there's a lot of back and forth, byron. we keep coming back to this. it's very emotional for parents who, one, want to have their kids back in school and, two, want to have their kids back in

school. >> yeah. the problem here for the president is that he is stuck between two conflicting positions. one is his often stated commitment to listening to the science. problem being, of course, the science says, cautions, it's okay, it's safe for children to go to school. the other conflicting position is the democratic party's loyalty to the teachers unions who in a lot of places simply do not want to go back to school. and so far, it appears the teachers unions have the upper hand. 100 days can end pretty quickly. may 1st. not that far away. the situation is really a mess in a number of places. certainly chicago is a terrible mess. in san francisco, you have the city council going to war, the city government going to war with the school board which would rather spend its time stripping the names of george washington from schools than actually coming up with a plan to reopen. >> bret: here's the president and the senate leaders on

schools and stimulus, katie. >> no more goal post moving. states and districts have got to follow the science and get american education back on track. >> for parents, i have spoken to so many, who are desperate for the day they can send their children back to school safely. this rescue package will include resources for schools to make that happen quicker. >> bret: so that's the question. i mean, where are the resources that have been allocated already? >> well, i would say the bigger question is what's to say these teachers unions will agree to going back to school after they would receive this $1.9 trillion covid relief package. they've received $65 billion plus in previous packages. you have the mayor of chicago saying they've allocated hundreds of millions to ventilation and safety measures for teachers, yet they still

aren't willing to get back in the classroom. we've gone from follow the science to we're going to ebbing tort the federal government for more money with no guarantee that we're going to get back in the classroom to do our jobs when there are schools all over if country, private and public that have found ways to use the funding that they've been able to get from the federal government in previous relief packages and also from their local districts to reopen safely. the white house keeps changing. cdc director today saying that it's not a prerequisite for teachers to get vaccinated, then you have the white house walking it back at the press briefing saying they haven't released their guidance for that. we know there are teachers all over the country without vaccinations. >> bret: we go back and forth about where this vote is and where the money is. we had senator manchin on from west virginia. he's had concerns about how it's all packaged together.

it seems as we go along here that democrats are planning to go it alone. one element of it, the $1400 checks that used to be back in the georgia runoff $2,000. >> their election will put an end to the block in washington that $2,000 stimulus check. that's money that will go out the door immediately. >> there were $600 payments in the $900 billionkage that passed in december. this is $1400. that's $2,000. that's a promise he made and he is sticking by. >> bret: when he said $2,000 it included the $600 from the trump administration. where do you think we are on all this? >> thanks for having me on again. what we're saying, joe biden has a bigger vision and different vision than some democrats and most republicans do in the house and senate with regard to what a relief package should look like.

i would agree and resemble the position, my position reacceptables that of katie and byron regarding the science in our schools. i believe we should have a v and v plan. vaccine and ventilation. if we are able to provide that, any teacher that chooses not to go should be held accountable by that school system. i think you would find a lot of democrats, including myself, taking a position against unions that would prevent that. i find it serious why some republican friends seem reluctant to provide money to state localities. there's no money in the republican package that they talked to president biden about in the white house. president trump used to say we're not going to give blue state governors money to waste it. when we have a natural disaster, presidents don't send more money to states where there are democrats than republicans.

this is an american challenge. let us support cities and states and schools to get out of this mess. if people are able to vaccinate teachers, able to provide proper ventilation, any teacher that chooses not to go back to school should lose his or her job period. >> bret: i think senator manchin said not that he has a problem with funding cities and states. he has a problem with $350 billion being the number to do that. byron, finally i'll turn to the space force and what jen psaki said tuesday and then the redirect today. >> wow. space force. it's the plane of today. it is an interesting question. i am happy to check with our space force point of contact. i'm not sure who that is. i will find out and see if we have any update on that. >> big picture here, does the space force have the full support of the biden administration or is the president at some point perhaps going to try to get rid of it or

in some way diminish it. >> they absolutely have the full support of the biden administration and we are not revisiting the decision to establish the space force. >> bret: that seems like a cleanup on aisle 4 there, byron. >> big time. she really locked it in that first exchange, mocked the space force. remember, joe biden has come into office pledging to undo all sorts of things that president trump did during his term biden seem to be exclusively devoted to undoing president trump's accomplishments. but the space force is not one of the things that president biden is targeting. at the time, everybody thought there's a huge future for the military in space, something like this was needed at the pentagon. it is a new branch of the military and you shouldn't have

the spokeswoman for the commander in chief making fun of it like she did the other day. >> bret: next up the house considers removing congress woman greene from her committees over her controversial past comments. did you know you can go to libertymutual.com to customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? really? i didn't-- aah! ok. i'm on vibrate. aaah! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ it's time for the ultimate sleep number event on the sleep number 360 smart bed. can it help with snoring? i've never heard snoring... exactly. no problem. and... done. and now, save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. plus, 0% interest for 24 months. only for a limited time.

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>> this grave sin i am being crucified for is reading about things, posting them and asking questions on face book in 2018. people can call nancy pelosi and tell her office that when we do take the majority, if we do take it back, the same thing she's pulling on me, we'll do the same thing to their radical members. >> bret: congress woman taylor-greene after the decisions by republican caucus to fight for her to keep her committee assignments and as the house gets ready to vote on yanking those away from her for conspiracy theories and also threats that have been linked to her facebook page, whether she liked them or sent them. we said earlier in the show that she was making money off this, obviously meant fund-raising for

campaign and future on this issue. so are democrats, labeling all republicans as qnon. republicans are meeting about the fate of liz cheney whether she stays in house leadership after voting for impeachment of president trump. we're back with the panel. katie, your thoughts on this? all elements of it. >> well, you have to remember october 2 of 2020, there was a resolution brought to the house floor to condemn and to reject qnon. 146 republicans voted for it. dccc is now putting in $500,000 to go after a number of republican house members and saying they're part of qanon. every person has condemned the group and many voted to condemn them on the house floor. if you look at the districts they're targeting, young kim in

california, mike garcia. districts they thought they weren't going to lose in 2020. the idea the republican party is being defined by qanon just isn't true. there are a number of republicans on the record rejecting it. >> bret: harold, you were once a congressman. this is one congress woman out of 435 and yet she is not receiving the same punishment, if you will, in the republican caucus that steve king from iowa received for comments he made about white nationalism. your thoughts on this. >> it's a sad day we are even having to talk about this. i can't imagine anyone supports the hateful things that this congress woman has said. to put it in perspective, to add more to the craziness the republican house caucus may be on the verge of taking a stronger stance against liz cheney for a vote of conscience than they are against this

congress woman for the hate she's spread. sad day in congress if that's the case. >> bret: mccarthy is saying that he stands by liz cheney and keeping her in leadership position. she is going for a vote in the caucus. they're still talking about it at this hour. byron, what about this? obviously everybody onen this panel denounces fully those statements and anything that resembles threats. lot of people have spoken out about it including karl rove saying they should really look at this. is it the voters in georgia who decide whether she stays in congress? what about committees? >> well, certainly is up to the voters whether she stays in congress. look, her statements are indefensible. republicans should not try to defend them. on the other hand, this is a political maneuver by democrats trying to corner republicans and embarrass them. on the other hand, look. they have removed republicans,

or congress men from committees before. this happens. they had a democrat, katie hill, who had to leave congress after having a relationship with a staffer. this happens. sometimes members leave. >> bret: we will see what it looks like after this meeting tonight and the vote tomorrow. panel, stand by. when we come back we look at tomorrow's headlines tonight. ♪♪ this is what community looks like. ♪♪ caring for each other, ♪♪ protecting each other. ♪♪ and as the covid vaccine rolls out, we'll be ready to administer it. ♪♪ ♪ ♪ the chevy silverado trail boss. we'll be ready to administer it. when you have a two-inch lift.

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>> bret: tonight a look at tomorrow's headlines. katie, first to you. >> all right. president biden is invoked the defense production act to produce more covid tests for immigrants and unaccompanied minors at the border to deal with the upcoming and on going surge. >> bret: all right. byron? >> this is a hopeful headline. for a second time, biden raises daily vaccine goal.

remember he started out with a goal of 1 million a day. we were already there. had to raise it to 1.5 million. now we're over 1.3. hopefully, he'll have to raise it again soon. >> bret: harold, tomorrow's headline tonight. >> in memory and honor of the fallen capitol police officer and fbi agents in florida, my headline is not a day goes by that law enforcement doesn't risk it all to protect us. my prayers go out to the sicknick family this evening. >> bret: thank you very much. that was quite a memorial service today. last night and today up on capitol hill. just a reminder, panel. one year ago today, bernie sanders won the most votes in the iowa caucus. took him three days because of the voting snafus to declare victory. he didn't win any more after the nomination. all right. thanks a lot. thank you for inviting us into your home. fair, balanced and unafraid. have you seen the show?

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